> On Oct 22, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name> wrote:
> I’ve always assumed that there was a small railgun or coil gun that would “toss” the projectile away from the launcher, The projectile would then orient to the target and burn away.
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> Way too much work and fragility for not enough return.  You can soft launch with compressed non-flamible gas.
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Given the standard missile is about the size of 6 or 7 rolls of toilet paper stacked on top of each other and 100 lbs, (Per CT missiles special supplement the standard missile is 15 x100 cm and 50 kg.) a frikken’ bungee cord would practically do the job.

Of course, this begs the question of how a missile half the size of a gorram sidewinder can pack enough chemical energy in it to do up to 6000 seconds of 6g acceleration into a tube only slightly larger than some Estes model rockets….let alone pack enough punch at the other end to go through the average automobile, let alone starship armor.